Gumpelmann. Eine psychiatrische Groteske - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3925931368 ISBN 13: 9783925931369

Synopsis

GUMPELMANN, an alter ego of the author, confronts an all-powerful psychiatric establishment intent on pushing through its agenda at all costs. In this instance it is the drug oneirine – first described in Thomas Pynchon’s "Gravity’s Rainbow" – that German psychiatrists believe holds the key to developing the ultimate paranoid mouse.
Who then could better describe the sexual humiliations and numerous forms of never-ending dependency originating in a clinic geared to doing the bidding of the drug companies than a psychiatric insider?
A funny, corrosive and entirely absorbing novel in the subversive tradition of American postmodern literature, which could just as well have been entitled "Sex, Drugs and Doo Wop."

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About the Author:

KARL KOEHLER was born in Manhattan in 1935, grew up in the Bronx and, after studying at Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, completed his medical studies in Innsbruck. After finishing his psychiatric residency in university clinics in New York (Cornell) and Heidelberg as well as the State Hopital in Marburg, he became a Privatdozent in Heidelberg; later he accepted an appointment as head of Social Psychiatry at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Bonn. He is presently living in retirement with his wife in the Bonn-Cologne area.

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 3925931368
• ISBN 13: 9783925931369
• Binding: Perfect Paperback